June says (in voiceover), "Someone once said, 'Men are afraid that women will laugh at them. Women are afraid that men will kill them.'" This quote is generally attributed to Margaret Atwood, though the piece of writing by Atwood that most resembles it is somewhat different and less succinct. In her essay collection 'Second Words: Selected Critical Prose, 1960-1982', what Atwood wrote was: "'Why do men feel threatened by women?' I asked a male friend of mine....'I mean,' I said, 'men are bigger, most of the time, they can run faster, strangle better, and they have on the average a lot more money and power.' 'They're afraid women will laugh at them,' he said. 'Undercut their world view. Then I asked some women students in a quickie poetry seminar I was giving, 'Why do women feel threatened by men?' 'They're afraid of being killed,' they said."
